Wired to Win: Neurodiversity as a Superpower

Hosted by Trystan Reese and Yoo-Jin Kang

Thu, Apr 9, 2026

4:00 PM UTC (45 minutes)

Virtual (Zoom)

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What you'll learn

Recognize the role of shame as a motivator (and replace it!)

Begin the journey of self-acceptance, so you're driven by vision and trust instead of shame

Practice self-advocacy so you can do better work

Apply accommodation scripts to your daily life so you can effectively and authentically ask for what you need

Navigate rejection sensitivity with grace

Master new skills for working with rejection sensitivity so you can receive feedback with ease

Why this topic matters

Whether you just discovered you're neurodivergent or have been on this path for many years, this session will teach you how to advocate for what you need, adapt when you need to, build language around self-awareness, and finally accept who you truly are.

You'll learn from

Trystan Reese

Neurodiversity coach, keynote speaker, and strategist

Trystan Reese is a certified Dare to Lead facilitator, published researcher, and professional trainer who was diagnosed with ADHD at 35. He has spent the years since building practical frameworks for neurodivergent professionals navigating workplaces that weren't designed for them. Trystan delivered a mainstage keynote on rejection sensitivity at Neurodiversion 2025, has coached dozens of neurodivergent professionals, and has trained hundreds of leaders who manage neurodiverse teams. He brings research, lived experience, and truly practical tools to this work, which many have called "groundbreaking" and "powerful."

Yoo-Jin Kang

Integrative leadership strategist and executive coach

Yoo-Jin Kang (she/her) is an integrative leadership strategist, facilitator, and executive coach who helps leaders and teams build leadership that is sustainable, grounded, and deeply human. She works with founders, executives, and organizational leaders who are navigating complexity, pressure, and rapid decision-making and want to lead with greater clarity, steadiness, and intention.

With more than a decade of experience across public health, equity work, organizational consulting, and leadership development, Yoo-Jin supports leaders when surface-level productivity strategies are no longer enough and when the real work involves shifting patterns, not just improving performance. Her approach focuses on the connection between nervous system regulation, decision-making, communication, and culture, helping leaders move from reactive survival mode into more strategic and sustainable leadership.

Yoo-Jin’s work is informed by her training in public health and integrative frameworks, which emphasize prevention, root-cause understanding, and whole-person leadership. Just as integrative medicine treats the whole person rather than isolated symptoms, her approach to leadership looks at how strategy, identity, nervous system state, power, and purpose interact. She blends evidence-based leadership development with trauma-informed practice, somatic awareness, and systems thinking to help leaders increase capacity, reduce reactivity, and lead more effectively under pressure.

She holds a Master of Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley, and dual bachelor’s degrees in Sociolinguistics and Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her early career included work in public health, gender-based violence prevention, and community-based organizing, partnering closely with BIPOC communities and survivors to advance equity and access to care. Over the past 12+ years, her consulting and facilitation work has spanned philanthropy, nonprofits, higher education, and mission-driven organizations, where she has designed and led trainings, leadership programs, and organizational strategy sessions for teams across the country.

Through Yoo-Jin Kang Consulting, she partners with leadership teams and organizations to build cultures of care, accountability, and sustainability while still meeting ambitious goals. Her facilitation style is known for being both rigorous and deeply human: practical enough to apply immediately and reflective enough to create lasting change. She is particularly interested in helping leaders build the internal capacity required for clear thinking, sound decision-making, and healthier team dynamics in high-pressure environments.

Neurodiversity clients include...

Tillamook
Multnomah County
Dropbox
Cambridge Associates
Bonneville Power

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